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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
According to these velocities, it is evident that fry coming from eggs spawned 
between eastern Maine and Cape Cod are carried to Nantucket Shoals in a relatively 
short time. Many of them, no doubt, drift far beyond before attaining the bottom- 
dwelling stage. Fish (1928, p. 283) found newly spawned cod eggs in the western 
part of Massachusetts Bay and late embryos in the eastern part and concluded that 
the anticlockwise drift carried them out of the bay before they hatched, We have 
